The 12,000-Year-Old Wolves That Ate Like Dogs

This discovery appears to capture a key moment in the budding relationship between wolves and people, offering compelling evidence of the two species drawing closer together.

Despite those efforts, he said, we still have a really poor understanding of where and how dogs originated.

It may not be what we think of as domestication in the Western sense, but there is a very strong human-canid interaction there.

The findings offer some of the earliest evidence of dog domestication in the Americas, older than the 10,000-year-old remains, also from Alaska.

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